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...family. His entrapment is a comment on Victorian class structures, from which, through an unexpected twist of the plot, he is ultimately able to escape by returning to the Amazon. Byatt makes subtle use of the American Civil War as background both to the ants' warfare and slave-making, and to the inhuman treatment of one of the family servants by her employers...
...small percentage of their respective races. The U.S. visa application process favors highly educated professionals and aggressive working class applicants. These people have a drive to succeed which they likely transmit to their children. There was no such selection process in order to become an American or West Indian slave. Seen in this light, higher academic achievement is not a reflection of cultural values, but of the shifting process of entry into American...
This brilliant, desperate, sheet-soaking nightmare of a novel begins in what seems to be the clear air of rational narration, as Thomas Jefferson, living in Paris at the outset of the French Revolution, beds his mulatto slave girl Sally Hemmings. Whether the historical Jefferson actually did so is unprovable; he denied it, perhaps because of social necessity, and modern assertions on either side of the question are clouded by the racial politics of tradition vs. revisionism. For author Erickson, the power of his theme's dark vision sweeps away argument. Jefferson was the giver of America's creed...
...every day. The novel veers to turn-of- the-millennium Berlin, where a writer named Steve Erickson is murdered, then to an old recluse named Tom in the American desert, then to what must be early 19th century Monticello, where Jefferson and John Adams jaw dispiritedly about a vast slave rebellion that has taken over Virginia...
...students' and administrators sympathies or guilt." What exactly is there to feel guilty about? And, if there is something worth feeling guilt about, perhaps that should be rectified. Mr. Fields states that "Coalition members should try to focus on reality. If they believe that the racism that accompanied the slave system is really alive at Harvard, then they will be surprised at the injustice and racial inequality that exists in the real world. Harvard is far from the 'plantation'..." Are you saying, Mr. Fields, that I should be happy since I'm no longer a slave or an indentured servant...